...Idowu Opeoluwa Isreal Akingba; Shivee Ranjanee Kaliappan; Hanny Zurina Hamzah Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the long-term impacts of health capital on economic growth in Singapore from 1980 to 2013. Design/methodology/approach Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL)-ECM...

...David Reisman Purpose Singapore does not have a welfare State. Instead it has full employment, rapid growth, affordable education and equality of opportunity. It also has the Housing Development Board and the Central Provident Fund. Public housing and compulsory savings are the subject...

...David Reisman Purpose Singapore's rapid economic progress has been accompanied by a series of experiments in medical savings and health insurance. This paper aims to examine the “three Ms” – Medisave, MediShield, and Medifund – in order to establish the way in which the policy‐instruments...

...Grace K.M. Wong With Singapore having the fifth fastest aging population in the world, the implications associated with such as a phenomenon have finally placed the elderly on the Singapore Government's national agenda in 1999. As the elderly constitute an increasing proportion of Singapore's...

... tax file data to conduct a similar study for Singapore, a rapid‐growing newly‐industrializing country. The results indicate that disposable income, the tax price of giving, donor’s age and educational attainment are important determinants of charitable giving by individuals. Donations are found...

...Linda Low This article discusses how Singapore does,which has gone beyond old age and certain traditional aspects, in terms of providing social security for its people. While there are no unemployment insurance benefits because of the economic philosophy of the paternalistic government which...

...K.P. Kalirajan; G. Shantakumar The effects of ageing on incomes, taxes, social protection and labour productivity will be important considerations in Singapore’s future economic policy, while posing strong challenges for the country, which has become more global in outlook. This paper briefly...

...Chung Ming Wong; Vincent C.H. Chua; S. Vasoo This article makes use of pooled time series data to study the demand for donations to charitable organizations in Singapore, a newly‐industrializing country. As in the case of the developed nations, donations are found to be responsive to the price...

... work, thrift and emphasis on education. The above factors seem to have worked in Singapore, although some researchers have observed that economic success and rapid changes have eroded these traditional values. In Singapore, the political leaders have now cautioned Singaporeans against assimilating...